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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

(By Jonathon M. Seidl, The Blaze) - The video is as heartbreaking as the story. In it, a polar bear can be seen dazed and confused, twirling in circles just seconds before flopping into a nearby pool, thrashing, and then going still. Those, an amateur video claims, are the final moments in the life of Knut, a four-year-old celebrity polar bear that died Saturday at a Berlin, Germany zoo: